rising anti-semitism and hate across the board as has been. i would argue, fan and by donald trump who's really is personally important to joe biden. and so i would expect to continue to see really direct language come out of the white house on this mat i can't put a better at any better than a lot of the folks out in the panel. >> i mean, i think i agree with frank that they owe these jewish students place to study and live safely. i shudder to think let's, you're paying tuition to be subject to all of this. it's you know, it's insane. >> frank to come back to this and i would highly recommend this story, the atlantic cover story, you say the era of american the golden age of american jews is, ending. can you just, as we wrap up here are what you mean, you could almost do it to the ark of the history of columbia university, which was a place that had excluded jews with quotas. they even created a campus in brooklyn in order to take jewish money of smart kids would otherwise get into colombia and they educated the

mare in this kind of warehouse and then it became the symbol of jewish success, where when i went to columbia about a third of the class was jewish and then now there was his place of acceptance of jewish triumph in america. and then now to come full circle to see the ways in which jewish students don't have a basic sense of safety on campus. it feels like a parable about america. >> very remarkable. thanks very much to our panel for being with us this morning. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn understands. all starts right now all right. >> history three in the courthouse opening statements set to begin in the criminal case against donald trump, and breaking this morning roared on who the first witness will be. some one who bought embarrassing, damaging stories about donald trump. >> columbia university's president. president is calling for a reset. all class going virtual today he has university

grapples with the ongoing pro-palestinian protests on campus. and jewish students now being urged to stay home for their own safety the faa it is investigating another scary close call on the runway at jfk will tell you what happened when one flight was forced to abort takeoff to avoid hitting several other planes. >> i'm sarah sidner with kate bolduan in john berman and this is cnn news central all right you were looking at live pictures of the courthouse and lower manhattan? >> this is cnn's special coverage of an event the likes of which ts country has never seen. this morning, we are standing by for opening statements in a case that could ultimately put a former president behind bars. donald trump is charged with faifying business records to hide aotentially daging story out an affair with porn star. >> this is something has long

denied. this morning, brand new details about the first witness. the prosecution plans to call a man who once led the national enquirer and aza new your ties, put it bought and varied stories that could be damaging to donald trump cnn's kaitlan polis is outside the court this morning for the latest on what we are expected to see, caitlin well john, knows 18 jurors, the 12 jurors that will judge donald trump, plus the alternate they're all going to be coming into the courthouse by nine 30 today. >> and then we're off in earnest in this first criminal trial against donald trump opening statements will be taking place. this morning to expected to start pretty quickly once the jurors have assembled for the day and what they will be doing is previewing the contours of the case on both sides. so the prosecutors are going to give the jurors and the public a glimpse into all of the evidence that they have collected against donald trump

and want to present to him we present against him over the course of the coming days. that's what they're opening statement will be. >> and then the defense team, todd blanche, donald trump's chief attorney, is going to be giving his opening statement. >> we do expect that to be largely about witness credibility, trying to cut in to what the prosecutors are going to be putting on the stand. the first witness that will be david. he's going to be called as a witness for the prosecution. he is the former chairman of the cup publishing company that was publishing the national enquirer and is a person who has agreed to cooperate, got to deal with prosecutors, and is stepping up at this time to speak about not very likely what he knows of catch and kill schemes. these schemes in 2016 that donald trump and his campaign, we're interested in& his personal attorney, michael cohen, we're interested in to collect negative stories about donald trump, put money toward the people who had those stories, whose those stories where there's to tell and silence

lins them, a very big thing, not just for stormy daniels, who is at the core of this falsification of business records case, but also for other witnesses who are likely to be called to testify against the former president kalen, how long will the opening statements be? do we know? >> a little bit more on david because you said he reached in an immunity deal with federal prosecutors. >> what is it that he has admitted or conceded to in the past well, john, as far as opening statements, there isn't a time limit on how long these attorneys will go, but they're not going to bore the jury to start out this de typically opening statements can take an hour, 45 minutes, something like that. >> i've understand from my sources that on the defense sayyed, it's not going to be very long at all, but as far as david being the first person up on the witness stand and what he's going to be speaking about. >> he is particularly attuned to what had happened with another woman who accused donald trump and alleged

affair, a woman named karen mcdougal, who is expected to be testifying at some point against trump during this trial? >> to paint that portrait of all of the motivations of trump to allegedly falsify these business records. and so he would be a person that can give a window into the entire atmosphere of what donald trump wanted to do and what may have motivated him in 2016 to want to pay off stormy daniels? >> very, very interesting, great explanations, great to have you down there for this moment in history, caitlin, poland's thank you very much. >> okay. >> so before trump's legal team begins laying out their legal strategy inside court, donald trump is doing his level best to have his say outside of the courtroom lashing out on social media against the district attorney, the gag order the fact that he even needs to be in core two and more all this weekend, part of his continued effort to manage the narrative before having to sit silently before the jury. cnn's alayna treene has much more on this. she's joining us now. >> what are you hearing about

donald trump's thinking going into this week? >> because you look at social media or how he talked outside of court ron friday, he's he seems angry for sure he is angry. kate, and i can say his public comments his raging about this being unfair, his frustration with the gag order placed on him, all of that is also playing out behind the scenes. he very much does not want to be a criminal defendant in any trial. but this one in particular, i think is very personal for donald trump. and remember, a lot of salacious details are expected to come out of this. you're going to be hearing from people who have been very close to him in the past, people like michael cohen, his former attorney and fixer, as they referred to him. that's part of the reason as well that he's very angry about this gag order because he's not able to attack witnesses that some that he is particularly very frustrated about, but a lot of this as well, it could be embarrassing for donald trump and he does not want this on display,

particularly in the lead up to his next presidential election ahead of november and if you think back to what this is really about, it's about alleged payments to a porn star that he allegedly had an affair with and then used hush money payments to try and cover that up during his first campaign ahead of 2016. and again, when it comes down to it, you strip all the bluster way you think about donald trump. this is not something he wants to be sitting through now, i also just want to point out that as much as his advisers are saying that they think this trial could help him with fundraising. this could boost his support and donations. they really don't know particularly how this is going to play out because it isn't a general election. what we saw happen during the primary when he was indicted is not necessarily going to be the same thing that happens in adrenaline. so i keep that in mind now i also just want to point your attention to kate. some of this interview we had with the south dakota governor kristi noem yesterday, she was speaking with dana bash should a very interesting two response about how it could be playing with some of his allies. take a

listen if donald trump is convicted in this trial, we use still support him in november if my truces between joe biden and donald trump every single day of the week? >> yes. i will support donald trump. i have from the very beginning now, pretty stunning answer. from kristie know, but i think that just underscores as well how they're unsure of what could happen if he is ultimately convicted in this, how will this play out? >> he knows though, that he has his best defenders out there on the arrives like kristi noem rehashing talking points that the campaign has given them to support him. and so i think you're going to continue to see interviews like that in the days to come. >> that's for sure. it's good to see you. alaina, let's see what today brings for sure sir. all right. coming up a full-blown crisis at columbia university as passover begins tonight, columbia university's rabbi is warning june who is students to stay home as more pro-palestinian protests are planned for today, what the school is telling students

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on-campus and one-off the first titled to gaza solidarity encampment, which is actually just beyond the gate that you see over my shoulder. there is this growing number of people. there's some setting up tents. the question is how long and university officials will allow them to remain there given that nypd was called last week to actually clear out a previous in cabinet the other demonstration happening on all right, so it looks like we're having some technical difficulties with polo sandoval. let's see if we can go back to him in just now. >> pull up sara, i hope you can hear me and see me now. yeah sense of what transpired over the weekend so over the weekend we saw a large demonstration actually gather outside on the columbia gaze. remember the campus itself is still restricted access only students and and staff. so because of that, we saw a secondary

demonstration form outside the gates. what we also have seen intensify are the concerns among some joy students who have expressed concern that they feel uncomfortable and in some cases, even intimidated. i an opportunity to speak to some of these jewish students who told me that they are growing increasingly frustrated with columbia saying that the institution does not doing enough to make sure that they feel safe particularly ahead of passover, you mentioned that ribeye that even called on several hundred jewish students and simply go home. now columbia 40 it's part saying that here's these concerns that they are doing everything they can to make sure that these students feel safe. and also the organizers of this pro-palestinian demonstration have also released a statement saying that they have maintained a peaceful environment and also, distancing themselves from who they described as non on student protesters off campus calling them, quote inflammatory individuals who do not represent us. so that's a key voice in this. and then finally, another key voice in this the columbia president out with the announcement that you

mentioned little while ago, turning to virtual learning in a statement, president minouche shafik say that she's deeply saddened by what's happening on campus on all sides of this debate. and writing specifically the decibel level of our disagreements has only increased in recent days, the president wrote these tensions had been exploited. an amplified by individuals not affiliated with columbia who have come to campus to pursued their own agendas. she writes, we need a reset, sarah, so that's going to be one thing to watch. certainly, what will columbia university's plan of action be here? not just for the considerations that we've seen forum off-campus, but most importantly, the one that's taken place on campus. and this is really a reflection of what's so many universities and colleges throughout the country facing grappling with the fact that they need to come up with plans to do demonstrations as well all right. >> polo sandoval, some glitches there, but you got the gist of

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the first time a former president has ever faced a criminal trial. >> if he is found guilty, it is conceivable. he faces jail time for this. we will cover every every step of the way this morning. in the meantime, knew this morning documents discovered by us researchers suggests that a us companies y have unknowing used north korean designers and illustrars to create popular american cartoon animations. the uss strict sanctions that banned us companies from doing business with any north korean companies. cnn's sean lyngaas is here with the details here showing, what have you learned? >> john, north korea has a longstanding fascination with hollywood dictator kim jong il, was famously a collector of many movies. in this case, hollywood may not know there actually having a relationship here with north korea because what we found and talking to us researchers as a trove of documents sitting on a computer server north korea, which is a very restricted part of the

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right now if trump tower were donald trump will be soon departing, leaving his apartment ahead to court in lower manhattan. were opening statements will begin in his criminal trial at the very same time, donald trump is also on the verge of a pay day valued at 1.3 billion dollars for what, for what that hinges on though today, let us bring in cnn's matt egan for much more. so matt, tell me what is going on here. >> well, listen, donald trump, that's what i say every time you do donald trump, he's on the one yard line here of a major financial windfall. now i know what's going through your mind, isn't truths, truth, social, really tiny. >> companies i've got no revenue almost more money than all the other ones in the stock prices crashed. >> all of that is true. none of it matters here, because the merger agreement, i don't make the rules here. the merger agreement includes a bonus payment. it's known as earn out shares and guess who's going to get 90% of this bonus? 36 million shares. that's donald trump. now here's the key. the bonus triggers. if the share price stays above $17.50 for 20

day trading period, and tomorrow would actually mark the 20th debt. now, even though the share price has gone all over the place, right? it's been up, it's been down, it's down massively from the peak. it's never in below that $17.50 more since it went public about a month ago, you can see it right there. so that means unless this stock suffers an epic crash in the next 36 hours, donald trump is very likely to get this bonus payment. and even though the stock is down from the peak, this is still worth 1.3 billion billion dollars at current prices. >> when can he cashed in on this though, like he gets he gets this big, big, big bonus, 36 million shares when and what can you do with it? >> but experts say this would not be something you could cash in anytime soon because these shares, they would be subject to what's known as a lock-up agreement. we're insiders. they promised not to sell or even borrow against their stick. anytime soon this would actually take months before he'd be able to sell this. and we should also note that the

stock is still according to experts, still looks very richly valued. one professor told me it's grossly overvalued. another one said the share price is responding primarily to non-rational factors. and another sounds like half the investing in the market yeah. >> my personal favorite is it's also been called a meme stock on steroids. now at last, check this stock is down 4% premarket, so it could be another volatile day after a whole series of volatile days. >> and remember, donald trump, he's not just the chairman of trump media, he's not not just the most influential user and popular user on truth, social. he is also the biggest shareholder of after this bonus agreement is triggered, he's going to own 115 million shares, 65% of the total. let's see definitely let's see what happens with that stock price today out to be very interesting it's great to see you. thank you. landed up john billion dollars. so he has that going for them, which i'm purely thinks is nice. >> this morning opening

statements in historic criminal case against donald trump, they are set to begin in just a few hours with us now, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jennifer rodgers and cnn legal analysts and author of the new book, trying trump norm eyes and norm investigated trump has castle the house democrats in the first impeachment case. norm, i just wanted to start with you and i want to know what you're looking for. an opening statements. josh garcia and politico, my friend and mentor wrote, you were quoted into story dang, the prosecution wants to shift from it being a hush money case to an election interference case. why john if the prosecution persuades the jury that this is a serious matter, in fact, the most serious that you can have in a democracy, influencing an election contrary to law, then the jury will apply why that gravity they need to every piece of evidence they'll take it seriously and they're more

likely to return a verdict. >> and that theme of election can interference has been sounded loud and clear. i was in court all last week for the proceedings and i'll be here every day throughout the trial and the emphasis was on a election interference even the judge, when he charged the jury said that this is a case about an alleged conspiracy illegally to influence the 2016 election. that's the prosecution's mission today. and i expect that's what we're going to hear when they open to the jury in gen. you say you were looking for nothing less than the theory of the case here. what do you mean well, usually it's pretty obvious with a theory of the case as you can see it right in the charging instrument. >> but here prosecutors have not specified which crime it is that enhances this misdemeanor of falsifying business records into a felony could be one of three things. federal election law, state election law, or a state tax offense. they put all

three of them in their statement of facts that came out with the indictment, but they haven't been clear about whether they actually intend to prove one, two, or all three of those things. so that's really what i'm looking for. >> all right, let's talk about what we learned overnight that the first prosecution witness will be david, who was in charge of american media, which owned the national enquirer, who reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors talking about national inquirers role in buying and burying stories about donald trump. why is he important as the first witness? >> well, assuming he is 100% on board with which i assume he is because he's going first, he really can set the stage because this meeting where they talked about we have a campaign now what are we going to do about bad stories about you came in 2015. so this really starts at the very beginning with this, you're going to be running in this presidential election. we need to do something to enhance good news about you. put bad news about your opponents out there and kill stories that would hurt you in the election that all starts way back in 2015. and

david can do all of that in addition to of course, talking about conversations that only he and donald trump were privy to as they were paying off karen mcdougal, who's the other person who got hush money in this case. and the negotiations around whether they were or were not going in a catch and kill the stormy daniels incident, the ambassador, why have david is your first witness it goes back to that theme of the case that business records were falsified to cover up payments that were intended to allegedly illegally influence an election. >> that agreement was sat at a trump tower meeting with michael cohen and donald trump in 2015, and they in order to bridge the toughest gap in this case, the gap of intent. john, what was going on in trump's my the prosecutors will want to argue that starting at that meeting, david agreed through that catch and keep kill scheme to benefit the trump campaign

and that everything that followed, including the payments to stormy daniels had that intent of allegedly illegal election interference. so it's the theme of the case that unifies all those disparate efforts and to jens very good point. i suspect prosecutors are going to hit the federal campaign crimes. the state election crimes, and the tax crimes in the opening today, belts suspenders and duct tape why not? >> again, with david, we haven't heard that much from him over the last several years in public. so this will be the first time we hear from it at length. and remember according to what we know, he was in the room with donald trump and can testify as to what he spoke with about trump is specifically. all right. dan, if you're that offense here, what do you have to accomplish today? >> well, so interesting because usually the defense doesn't want to promise a whole lot. they probably hadn't made the decision about the defendant testifying. they're really just

trying to put forward their theme of the case. he didn't do it. he didn't have the intent, so on i'm really looking for though who is in charge here, because if they start kind of going into fantasy land with the facts, if they promise that he'll testify or promise that they're going to knock down the prosecution's case in a way that seems unrealistic, that tells me that donald trump isn't charged. the he is not listening to his lawyers. he is ordering them to make certain arguments and that would be very bad news for his team. >> all right. we're just a few hours away from these openings. state ms jennifer rodgers. thank you very much. normal eyes and you will be in that room, will be counting on you and others for a minute by minute account of what takes place. thanks so much for being there sarah. >> all right. the faa investigating a scary close call, it jfk in new york. one plane forced to abort takeoff to avoid a disaster asked her involving multiple planes, it is the second close call involving multiple planes and less than a week at major us airports, cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean is joining me now. pete, can you

explain what happened here yeah, you're not the only person that call this a near saster, sarah, this near collision was on the runway at week, but there's most recent incident, that when we're talking about was a jfk in new york that makes to near-collisions at a major airport involving commercial airliners in a week's time. >> what is more startling here is that this near collision happened on the same runway where there was another near collision 15 months ago, really kicked off a lot of concern about the spike in what are called runway incursions. there was a safety summit and dsb investigations, the faa scram to react. here's what happened. is happened on wednesday, april 17, for0 in the afternoon, the control tower at jfk cleared this swiss airlines flight and airbus a3 30 to take off from jfk's runway four left the ground controller responsible for movements of planes as they taxi cleared for planes to cross runway four left, he could see it in the animation. now the swiss pilots noticed all of that unfolding in front

of them& a boarded their take-off. you can see it here. the switch white begins to takeoff roll. the other planes cross the runway, delta american republic airways crossing in front of it, swiss flight begins the takeoff roll by the pilot catches it and aborts the takeoff. they are the real heroes here the weather was good here this was indeed daylight, but this could have been a whole lot worse. compare it to the january 13, 2023 runway in version on the same runway that was at night, similar circumstances and american flight, a triple seven crossed out onto the runway without being told to do so. now, the ntsb subpoenaed the pilots who said they were distracted by paperwork this investigation is just beginning and the faa says it is looking into woods era. >> i know you've been doing a lot of reporting on the shortage of air traffic controllers, but we don't know exactly why this happened, but it didn't look good. thank you so much. pete muntean. appreciate it. >> this morning. the head of the idf's military intelligence branch has

resigned the idf says this follows his quote, leadership, responsibility for the hamas attacks on october 7. he has already admitted to an intelligence failure by his unit. this moment though, marks the first senior military figure to step down over those attacks. cnn's matthew chance is in jerusalem with more on this forest, matthew, what are you hearing about this they will it's certainly a significant development, as you say, this is the most senior sort of head ta role as it were following the october 7 attacks, which killed her. >> remember, approximately 1,200 people hundreds of people were taken hostage in gaza. and there's still more than 133 who are not accounted for, believed to be hostages still inside the gaza strip this is the major general i heroin haliva and he's the head of israeli military intelligence that just after the attacks on october the seventh, he admitted along with other senior israeli military

commanders, that has been a serious intelligence failure, a cat strophic one. but today that news came through of his resignation, of course, the concern is, among other aspects of the israeli military& on the political level as well. but it won't stop there. the could be other sort of political consequences for the massive failure of israeli intelligence which led to that you could have worst attack against israel since its founding, back in the 1940s something that the repercussions of which are still being felt today inside israel. and of course, in the gaza strip with its ongoing military operation case matthew, thank you for being there. it's really good to see you as always john wright, marjorie taylor greene is calling on house speaker mike johnson to resign or else and the roc roll hall of fame has announced their 2024 class of inductees. how did they do does

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indo-pacific region is now in the senate's hands. they're scheduled for tuesday vote on what has become a month long political battle. and the republican drama around all of this seems nowhere near over, despite the house already voting this weekend with marjorie taylor greene saying, after still even after the house vote, that speaker johnson must resign, seen as lauren fox has much more on this, she's babka with us. okay. this vote is now passed the house, but the threat to speaker johnson is not. why hasn't marjorie taylor greene acted on her threat? what are you picking up yeah. >> i mean, we were watching very closely on saturday before this vote during this vote, right after this vote to see if marjorie taylor greene was going to take the step to begin the process. >> it's to try to oust speaker johnson and then she didn't. and i think that that is what is looming right now. we don't know certainly when she will take that step. she is already warning that she wants to speak or to resign, and if he

doesn't, she is prepared to try to vacate him. here's what she said yesterday. today with all due respect, you didn't give me a plan for the speaker's role. >> and again, we are going to file that motion at some point it's coming regardless of what mike johnson decides to do and we have three more republicans joining us from special elections coming up very soon. >> so people need to know this can happen obviously, looming over all of this is what democrats would do. >> we already know there are a handful of democrats who say that they are willing to take a procedural step to try and save mike johnson on the floor. and the sense from democrats after that vote on saturday, i was right outside his members were coming out of the chamber. they were overwhelmed with the steps that johnson had taken. i asked one democrat representative mike quigley if his view of the speaker had shifted over the course of the last several

weeks, watching johnson take this step, despite the fact that there were so many conservatives who were warning him he could lose his job over it. and he's sort of pause for a minute and then he said, i guess my view has changed about mike johnson. they there are a lot of democrats in that boat, kate. so while marjorie taylor greene is threatening, she could take this step. it's just important to remember, democrats could also vote to save him. and there are handful already saying they're willing to do so all right. >> let's see what today verjee, lauren, thank you so much for joining us now for more on this is cnn political commentator margaret hoover and former obama campaign manager ceos and senior group jim messina. let's get, let's wrap it all together. okay, it's all it's all wrapped up into one on the vote to approve the aid, carl holes, the new york times, he put it this way. the house approval one saturday of money for ukraine, israel, taiwan, over angry objections from the extreme right, was the latest and perhaps most striking example of a bipartisan approach forged out of necessity. i mean, it was it was a winding road to get to

this point for sure. is it no harm, no foul or decidedly something different than that? >> we'll look, it took way too long to get what we should already get done. everyone's patent mike johnson on the back for doing his job. like it's nice, we have a speaker actually wants to be speaker. he is the third speaker. it's good thing to finally got this one right? and the democrats i think will support him in the end, we did what was right thing to do for our allies for the world. and now we're saying to the rest of the world, look america can walk and chew a little gum at the same time. but what does it look like? >> i mean, it's like really gross gross gum. >> well making is never he didn't get it done to his point and then to this question of whether marjorie taylor greene is actually going to pull the trigger on this motion to vacate the threat. what's the lingering threat? do we do think? >> well, look, she wants to have power and she's a chaos organizer. i mean, that's that's her and game. i mean, she just wanted to have power and be relevant. she's not here for public the policy, although to the extent that she's being influenced by russia to influence their public policy,

perhaps there's an argument there. >> i think democrats tony gonzales, if you've got moderate republican senators, republicans moderate democrats, and progressive democrats for ro khanna to jared moskowitz saying this guy is going to stay as speaker. >> i think we can pretty much be assured that mike johnson's going to stay there and democrats want him there. democrats would so much rather run against speaker johnson. however moderate, they may think he is in this moment for doing the right thing on ukraine. he's still is the speaker who voted to undermine the 2020 election to reverse, i mean, this is no moderate, okay. >> they would rather run against that as a punching back in november. >> then than otherwise. >> let me play. you mentioned tony gonzales. let me play what he said is we're talking about this on the spectrum. you're discussing a moderate republican. he was saying he believes like johnson is going to stay in the job and he had some harsh towards around it. listen to this i serve 20 years in the military. >> it's my absolute honor to be in congress, but i served

with some real scum bags. it has been a brutal congress, but we're also dug in and for some reason, these fringe people think as if they have the high ground, they do not. i assure you the ranking in file members that normally are kind of easy going doing the right thing, put their head down, they vote yes or no, but they're not public about it. those days are over. the fight is here i'm wondering what the fight looks like. what's the san up and fight look like from this, he was suggesting kind of the more moderate republicans who are serving in the house in an election here, what does that look like now in the six months to well up for tony gonzales, he's got he has a primary runoff election coming in several weeks against a trump-endorsed neo-nazi. he might meanwhile hizon the largest segment of the border. i mean, the only fight he cares about is the border question. >> i could have had and that's not anywhere as part of this deal exactly. >> but again, one of the more

moderate republicans who's trying to do the right thing that i think will help speaker johnson. >> and i'm degree of continuity in the house leadership in jim, i know that you're in the business of giving republicans a lot of electoral advice what your business is, expanding, right exactly you go wherever the money when he takes you right round. >> off, it was a rough we get what is this something a republican electronic gonzalez can run on saying, we're, we're gonna, i'm gonna i'm standing, i'm standing up, but i'm fighting here absolutely. what he's saying is i've got my primary locked up and now i'm worried about the general. and so people are now starting to think, we're 198 days out for the selection. i know it's surprising what people having political calculus and i think he's doing the right thing and voters are likely reward him on that first, he's gotta survive donald trump and there would be a border deal. let's not forget if donald trump hadn't called

his party and said, i can have this don't kill joe biden. uh, when we could be wrapping up all these things today and really making america a better place. >> one thing that we don't know right now is where the democratic leader hakeem jeffries stands on the should we help save speaker john's mike johnson's job? if it if it does come to that the way it kind of ended this, it ended the week last week on friday. he wouldn't say he would only say we'll have to have the conversation before the house caucus that was before they voted on saturday do you think democrats if it comes down to it should help speaker johnson will help save speaker johnson should help save speaker johnson will, first of all, chemo should do what he's doing, which is talked to his caucus, and have a real discussion about it because that's what leaders do, and that's why he became leader. and we can't worry every time one of these members of the bar scene from star wars says they're going to file a petition to get rid of the speaker like the whole world can't stop because three

members, two of them who i'd never heard of until this morning. are joining marjorie taylor greene in the end, democrats will help save him because it's the right thing to do. and he's worked with them and that's all they wanted. they wanted to speak or they could sort of trust. i didn't have that in mccarthy and so they got rid of them. i think democrats will follow the leader progressives like ro khanna and other folks and support the speaker for the next hundred, 98 days then it came jeffries will be the speaker that's in row counter this. >> we can say very specifically, finish out this term correct? correct. let's not get out of hand. >> let's not get crazy or people bipartisanship only can go so far in american politics, it's good to see you guys soon. thanks. please come back. even though you love it, you didn't do a neck and new era of zeta news central starts now we are standing by for open putting statements in the new york criminal case against donald